Czech arms deal
1955 · Event
Nasser buys Soviet-bloc weapons through Czechoslovakia, alarming London and Washington and bringing the Cold War to the Middle East.
On these timelines: The Suez Crisis, Cold War, North Africa, Master
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- Anthony Eden (1897)
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Around 1955
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)